20 Most Recent
Western Digital 160GB 7200RPM HDD WD1600BB 1years warranty (optonal external usb enclosure) (160G7200RPMHARDDRIVE) Drive Case Questions & Answers
That sounds to me like bad connectivity between the drive and the USB port. The connection is enough to provide power to the drive but not for it to recognize the chipset controller which translates data from SATA to USB and then out the connection via the cable to your computer. Below are less frequent reasons for it:
1) Drive not formatted or corrupted
2) Drive not initialized
3) Drive has failed (A failed drive can move some of its motors but cannot read the disk)
My suggestion is to get an RMA from WD if your warranty still covers it. If not, you'll need to take apart the enclosure then extract the drive and see if you can connect it to an adapter such as SATA to USB or eSATA if your PC supports it. Just keep in mind that some of these drives especially the USB 3.0 versions do not seem to have the SATA connector but instead the A type connector embedded. If this is the case you're out of luck.
How To Take Apart Western Digital My Book EnclosureHow to disassemble Western Digital My Passport external
Hard drive easilyUSB 3 0 Wikipedia
Attach your external HD with some other computer, that will definitely appear normal, the problem is due to a virus in ur HD. Your computer's antivirus software stops it to appear. Back up your data on the other computer, format ur external HD, remove un-necessary files and run a virus scan to the files u copied from HD, Hope this will solve the problem, if not, let me know and tell me what would be the response on the other compuer
You should not even try to install an operating system on an external drive. Windows looks at the "C" drive and installs programs to "C" drive. You are trying to put it on the "G" drive. You will have too many problems and wish you never had tried. Buy a larger main drive and partition it with two equal partitions. Then "Dual Boot". You will find how to do this on the internet. Just Google "Dual Booting".
The hard disk is having bad sectors on its first 3000 sectors.the bad sectors are caused by degradation of the platter of the hard disk.OR the factory area of the hard disk has certain files called SMART, G -LIST and other log files.Unless one empties those log files with a good tool , one cant format ones hard disk.
This is likely a couple problems;
1. The hard drive is dying or is dead. You're looking at hardware recovery if this is the case. There are some tools such as Spinrite that might be able to recover the disk. (GRCHard drive data recovery software)
2. The power supply on the computer/laptop is not functioning as well as it used to. Try using another PC to see if there's any difference in results.
Remove the drive from the external case it is in and connect directly to your computer - see if the bios recognizes it. If so, the OS will do so also and you can access it. Also means the electronics of the external case are no good. If not recognized in other machine, the hard drive has gone to hard drive heaven and needs to be replaced.
